Long Wharf Theatre News

Now South Africa's master dramatist comes back to Berkeley Rep with a new show: Coming Home. Ten years after running off to the city to pursue her dreams, Veronika returns in rags.

Following the success of last year's A Year with Frog and Toad, Two River Theater Co. is proud to present You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown The Musical.

John Cullum, Colman Domingo and more have been announced for the upcoming production of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS by the acclaimed Broadway composing team Kander and Ebb. The production will take place at the Vineyard Theatre off-Broadway and begins previews February 12th with an official opening date of March 10th.

Long Wharf Theatre's Sunday Symposium series continues with a conversation about the nature of hatred, confession and forgiveness. The event will follow the 2 p.m. matinee performance of Have You Seen Us? on Sunday, December 13, 2009. Symposiums are free and open to all.

OBIE Award winner Russell Hornsby (Jitney, Eddie Sutton on ABC's Lincoln Heights) and LADCC and NAACP Award recipient Charlayne Woodard (Pretty Fire, Neat, In Real Life) star when L.A. Theatre Works records Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a sly coming-of-age comedy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, December 3 - 12 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the Storrs campus. CRT is also sponsoring a free lectures and discussions as part of its "Uncommon Sense" Series.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, December 3 - 12 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the Storrs campus. CRT is also sponsoring a free series of lectures and discussions as part of its "Uncommon Sense" Series. For tickets to Galileo, call 860-486-4226.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, December 3 - 12 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the Storrs campus. CRT is also sponsoring a free lectures and discussions as part of its "Uncommon Sense" Series.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, December 3 - 12 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the Storrs campus. CRT is also sponsoring a free series of lectures and discussions as part of its "Uncommon Sense" Series. For tickets to Galileo, call 860-486-4226.

Old Globe Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced the complete cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow's Whisper House

In January, South Africa's master dramatist comes back to Berkeley Repertory Theatre with his latest show: Coming Home.

OBIE Award winner Russell Hornsby (Jitney, Eddie Sutton on ABC's Lincoln Heights) and LADCC and NAACP Award recipient Charlayne Woodard (Pretty Fire, Neat, In Real Life) star when L.A. Theatre Works records Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a sly coming-of-age comedy by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.

Long Wharf Theatre continues its long tradition of premiering works by new American voices with the world premiere of Lil's 90th by Darci Picoult., directed by Jo Bonney, taking place on Stage II from January 6- February 7, 2010.

Long Wharf Theatre's Sunday Symposium series continues with a conversation about the nature of hatred, confession and forgiveness. The event will follow the 2 p.m. matinee performance of Have You Seen Us? on Sunday, December 13, 2009. Symposiums are free and open to all.

In conjunction with the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration, Pulitzer Prize winners playwright Paula Vogel and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak in conversation about the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, race in America, and more at the post-show Humanities Forum on Sunday, December 6.

Second Stage Theatre is pleased to announce that the critically acclaimed production of Anna Deavere Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY, has extended four weeks, through December 6. Conceived, written, and performed by Ms. Smith and directed by Leonard Foglia, LET ME DOWN EASY opened on Wednesday, October 7 and was originally scheduled to run through November 8.

A matchless quintet of interlinked plays by Britain's best-loved comic playwright, illustrates the hilarious consequences of not listening to one another.  Ayckbourn's overlapping characters are alternately naturalistic and farcical - quirky, neurotic, self-important, and hysterical.  Whether the comedy concerns marital conflict, infidelity, motherhood, or manhood; is set on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters reveal a LOL timeless familiarity in their desperation to make contact with one another. Ayckbourn's American premiere of 'Confusions' will be staged by the Lost Studio from January 15 - March 7, 2010 in Los Angeles.

As Guthrie Director Joe Dowling nears the end of his run in the title role of Brian Friel's Faith Healer (playing through Sunday, December 6, at the Guthrie Theater) he spoke with American Theatre magazine's Eliza Bent for the December 2009 'Front & Center' spotlight.

Long Wharf Theatre is partnering with IRIS - Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services to collect clothing and blankets for refugees settling in Connecticut this holiday season.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) will present Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, December 3 - 12 in the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the Storrs campus. CRT is also sponsoring a free series of lectures and discussions as part of its "Uncommon Sense" Series. For tickets to Galileo, call 860-486-4226.